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Lectures:

  1. Introduction To The Spanish Context, and the Pre-Renaissance
  2. Circle And Square In The Alhambra: Charles V And The Arrival Of The Renaissance In Spain
  3. Stripped Style: Philip II and the Construction of El Escorial
  4. The ‘Brilliant Madness’ of El Greco
  5. The Sacred Made Real and Displays of Religious Affect During the Reigns Of Philip III And Philip IV
  6. The Cartela, The Veil, and the Canvas: Zurbarán’s Deceptions
  7. Noble or Ugly, Ideal or Repulsive: The Naturalism of Ribera
  8. Servants, Spinners, and Ladies In Waiting: Velázquez and the Court of Philip IV
  9. Beauty, Charity, Horror: Murillo and Juan Valdéz Leal
  10. Contact, Conquest, and Conversion: Mission Architecture and Decoration in Colonial Latin America
  11. From the Codex to Mestizo Baroque: Hybrid Genres of Painting in Colonial Latin America
  12. From the Cathedral to The Casa: the Architecture and Decoration of Urban Cathedrals and Houses in Viceregal Mexico and Peru